Monday, March 21, 2016

03-21-16 Jive

Good evening, it's Monday, March 21st, and this is the Jive
at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming,
here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers a diverse program of NPR,
Pacifica, independent and local public affairs. Each night and weekend WESU
offers the best in free-form community programming. I’m Ben Michael, Thank you
for joining us!

Now here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week: Here in
Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, Monday nights you can participate in their
weekly Anything Goes Open Mic and Moments of Gratitude meditation. Wednesday
evening, electric gypsy tribal jazz band, The Grays, take the stage continue their
spring residency at the Buttonwood. Thursday night the Middlesex Drum Circle gathers
at the Buttonwood Tree. All are welcome!
Friday evening The Katie Bull Group Project takes the stage for a night of jazz
inside and “out” side the jazz tradition. On Saturday; it’s a morning class of
Transitional Tai Chi followed by the Aligned with Source mediation, this week
guided by spiritual and holistic healer Annaita Gandhy. Saturday afternoon brings the The Connetic
Word National Youth Poetry Slam 2016 to the Buttonwood Tree. Saturday evening, you can catch the Kennedy’s
performing their brand of Americana folk rock at the Buttonwood. The International
Women’s Day Art Show is on display for the month of March. http://buttonwood.org/

Down in New Haven tonight, at Café Nine, you can catch RIVERS
& RUST Featuring Kyle Cook of Matchbox 20, Frank Viele opens the show.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) Lab Rats and Decasa take the Café Nine stage. Wednesday
night, Café Nine Presents THE LOPEZ and Pangalactic, & Every Moving Color. On Thursday, it’s a night of CT punk
with ZOMBII, Hiss the Villain, and Jim Morrison's Ghost at The Nine. Frank Critelli plays the Friday early (5PM) show
at Café Nine this week and later Friday night, Fernando Pinto Presents ROBYN
HITCHCOCK and Emma Swift. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam
Session is with the George Baker Band this week from 4:30-7pm). Saturday
evening, ROZ AND THE RICE CAKES, Ports of Spain, Violent Mae, & Rudeyna
share a bill at Café Nine. Sunday night brings a night of rootin-tootin Gutter-Billy
and and busking with THE GODDAMN GALLOWS, The Palomino Brothers, and Outlaw
Ritual www.cafenine.com

Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight and most every
Monday you can catch a Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. Wednesday
night Toad’s presents rapper, Dave East. Thursday night Toads keeps the hip hop
going with Flatbush Zombies, A$AP, and Remy Banks. Friday evening, you can hear TITUS ANDRONICUS,
and Craig Finn. Saturday night The McLovins return to Toad’s Place. Haley Jane and The Primates and Jose Oyola and
the Astronauts open that show. www.toadsplace.com

Wednesday night, MANIC PRODUCTIONS AND ASBESTOS RECORDS PRESENT:

Joe Michelini (of River City Extension), with Wise Old Moon,
Johnny Mainstream at BAR in New Haven. Friday night Manic presents The Rocket
Summer, FARRO, & Kalimur at The Space in Hamden. Saturday at the Space
Manic presents Somos, Petal, The Superweaks, & Queen Moo. At The Ball Room
at The Outer Space, on Saturday night, Manic presents Neil Hamburger,

At Russell Library here in Middletown, tonight you can catch
reader’s theater, a live drama enacted by professional actors, directed by
Richard B. Kamins. The play this month
will be "Shipwrecked: An Entertainment, the Amazing Adventures of Louis de
Rougemont" by Donald Margulies. This and every Thursday, at 7pm, the Veteran's
Writing Group meets at the library. Saturday morning at 10 am, Thelibrary hosts the presentation, “Looking
for Indigenous Middletown in colonial archives: settler erasure of wangunk
indian tribal history at russell library”
This panel presentation will be based on research conducted by select
students from the Wesleyan class, “Decolonizing Indigenous Middletown: Native
Histories of the Wangunk Indian People,” taught by J. Kehaulani Kauanui,
Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology. This was a
service-learning course in partnership with the Middlesex County Historical
Society. Later, Saturday, at 1pm, ArtFarm
and The Russel library present, Shakespeare on Screen with film critic Richard
Alleva, who will show scenes from all three of Sir Laurence Olivier’s
adaptations of –Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III, and Othello —and discuss the
techniques that made them both memorable and groundbreaking. www.russelllibrary.org

The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet
every Wednesday at First Church on Court St. Call 860-347-0278 for
details.

This weekend at Infinity Hall Hartford, you can catch Moondance,
a Van Morrison tribute show on Friday night. Saturday, you can catch Kimock,
featuring Steve Kimock and John Kimock. At infinity Norfolk, Friday night
brings Jeff Pevar and friends featuring Mat Zeiner, David Livolski, and John
Peckman. Saturday at infinity Hall Norfolk, you can catch the Soul Sound Revue. www.Infinityhall.com

Now here's a rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:

Up in Hartford at Real Art Ways, through Thursday, you
can catch Requiem for the American Dream, wherein, leftist social critic Noam
Chomsky discusses how the concentration of wealth and power among a small elite
has polarized American society and brought about the decline of the middle
class. Also showing through Thursday is, Michael Moore’s new
film, “Where to invade next. Through Friday, Real Art Ways is also
offering “Only Yesterday,” a new English-language version of the 1982
Japanese animated film about a young woman who revisits her past on a trip to
her relatives in the countryside. Friday, Real Art Ways opens “Film 101: Face
in the Crowd”, and “Landfill Harmonic”. www.realartways.org

Tonight, and tomorrow (Tuesday) Trinity College’s Cinestudio is showing Son
of Saul, a film by first-time Hungarian director László Nemes that explores the
moral choices of one man in Auschwitz without minimizing, sentimentalizing, or
exploiting the Holocaust. Wednesday Cinestudio opens a run of “Spotlight”,
Tom McCarthy’s meticulous, smart and intense film that delves into the Catholic
Church’s sexual abuse scandal through the eyes of four reporters at the Boston
Globe, who investigated abuse and cover-ups going back at least 25 years. www.cinestudio.org

Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU:

Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for an hour
of Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.

From 6-6:30pm stick around for Brass Tacks with
Emmet Teran and Alec Shea presenting news stories from around the world through
interviews with experts and newsmakers on topics not covered elsewhere.

From 6:30-8, it’s 75% Folk with Michael Benson,
offering contemporary folk along with a mix of blues, jazz, world music and
movie soundtracks.

From 9:30-10:30pm, Scandinavian Sounds with DJ
Northern Lights discovers music old and new from a variety of genres -Denmark,
Norway, Sweden and Iceland.

At 10:30, Romancipation with Dr. Love and DJ
Smooth who offer advice on dating and love. You can submit questions to the
experts at www.romancipation.org

Sleep Paralysis is on from 11-midnight with Erin
and Ethan, chatting about dreams, floating on sounds, and poking around in the subconscious.

From 12-1am, it's Your Turn with Rachel Day
featuring a new guest each week.

1-2am features Third Waves with Georgia O'Queef
and Madam Ovary, a show of eclectic music by queer and female artists, quirky
commentary and a critical look at women in the world's news.

From 2-4am it's The Witching Hour with DJ Hex Girl
and DJ Tanner playing an eerie, dark and brooding mix of shoegaze, 80's Goth
rock, lo-fi music and chatting about occult topics.

BBC World news comes your way at 4 and then we
begin tomorrow’s broadcast day with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.

That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you missed
anything, you can find the script online at wesufm.org/jive. And tune in each
and every weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community
and on the air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a community service of Wesleyan
University since 1939.